Bio/cv

Marion Henry is a Franco-Canadian visual artist and researcher whose multidisciplinary practice explores the intersections between humans and non-humans in relationship with territories issues.

Marion Henry

As a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher Marion devotes her focus towards wastelands, vacant lots and other types of undefined/hybrid territories. A spontaneous scientist of contemplation, she approaches these spaces by walking, performance, documentation and research with the goal of connecting every actor on-site. Clay is for her a way to talk about the Earth, the soil and what exists together on top of it.

Her modus operandi is centered, among other things, around the notion of serendipity. Atypical elements extracted from excursions are “geological memories” which synthesize a new landscape, inspired by the territories that feed the imagination. The human/non-human connection involved in these borders are given a new choreography, shared through subjectivity.

Elise Luong, 2o24.

Marion Henry

Studies

  • Master’s degree in Urban Space, 2018 – 2020, La Cambre & ULB La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture, Brussels.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Design, 2014 – 2017 University of Quebec in Montreal (UQAM), Montreal.

Publications

  • Both Feet in the Brambles, self-published with the support of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, 2024, Brussels.
  • Interview with the director of the Marchin OYOU Cultural Center, Bosquet d’art,
    in collaboration with Brunella Dana-Allegrini, Dérivations number 9, 2024, Liege.
  • Presentation text for the exhibition Paréidolie by Guillaume Byl, 2022, Brussels.
  • Preface for the artist’s book L’après histoire by Stéfan Tulépo, 2021, Minoterie 21, Peillac.
  • Between Utopia and Dystopia: The Contemporary City, Échelles, No. 3 Icône, 2020, Montreal.
  • Atomium, in collaboration with Brunella Danna-Allegrini, Échelles, No. 3 Icône, 2020, Montreal.
  • Slag Heaps: Protecting the Ecology of Post-Industrial Pollution, in collaboration with Brunella Danna-Allegrini, Silica (online), No. 4 The Dirt Issue, 2020, New York.
  • Charleroi: Slag Heaps and New Landscape, in collaboration with Brunella Danna-Allegrini, Informa (peers reviewed), no12 Site Conditions, 2019, Puerto Rico.

Residencies

  • Circolo in the Seminar, 2025, Pennabilli (IT)
  • Moerdijk stone Sculpture, 2025, Moerdijk (BE)
  • Live.Make.Share, 2023/2024, Vietnam
  • Moerdijk Stone Sculpture, 2023, Moerdijk (BE)
  • Eden Hotel, 2020, Plouenez (FR)
  • Autoworkshop on the Road, 2018, Sudbury, Toronto, Detroit, Montreal

Exhibitions

  • Atlas Total, curated by Émile Barret, Brasserie Atlas, 2025, Brussels
  • Book Launch: Les deux pieds dans les ronces, Green Corridor, 2025, Brussels
  • L’AN IN IIII, curated by Joël Nadeau-Gauthier, Kamouraska Art Center, 2024, Kamouraska
  • Super Materia, curated by Lotte Beckwé and Brecht Buyse, Mont de Piété, 2024, Brussels
  • Culture en inté, Espace repères, 2024, Brussels
  • Hiden Observatories, Live.Make.Share, 2024, Hien Van
  • Moerism, Espace repères, 2023, Brussels
  • Atlas of Atlas, curated by Émile Baret, Brasserie Atlas, 2023, Brussels
  • Something Beautiful, curated by Mimi Kunz and Lucie Pinier, Lavallée, 2023, Brussels
  • Mattergy, curated by Louise Devin, Boondael Chapel, 2023, Brussels
  • Ne pas toucher, Ateliers Mommen, curated by Jimmy Hortencia and
    Berthille Bouillé, 2022, Brussels
  • Balise, curated by Marion Henry and Stéfan Tulépo, Espace repères, 2022, Brussels
  • Ronces Ouvertes, solo exhibition, Walter, 2022, Brussels
  • R-A-W (Recorded action web-exhibition), 2021, Bbeyond, online
  • Les petits formats, Wolubilis Cultural Center, 2021, Brussels
  • La Cambre – Graduation Show, Espace Vanderborght, 2020, Brussels
  • All in One, Kanal – Centre Pompidou, 2019, Brussels
  • Not to be Seen, BPS22, 2019, Charleroi

Public performances

  • Le champ opératoire, 2020, Terril des Piges, Charleroi
  • Matsutake, Presentation evening Your Perception May Not Be My Reality, pendant
  • Perfomance Art Studies, 2019, SomoS, Berlin
  • Performance audio/vidéo, Pheonix, en collaboration avec Joël Nadeau-Gauthier, 2019, Festival Le maquis, Montréal
  • Exercice de collaboration, avec Laurence Beaudoin-Morin et Florencia Sosa-Rey, 2019, Centre Skoll, Montréal
  • Soirées de présentation pendant la résidence Autoworkshop on the Road, 2018, Sudbury, Toronto, Detroit, Montréal
  • À la recherche du terrain fertile pour la relaxation, Soirée de performance et lancement du zine des auto-workshops au CDEX, UQAM, 2018, Montréal
  • Recréer le terrain vague en dehors du terrain vague, soirée de lancement de la revue Ex-Situ, 2018, Agence TOPO, Montréal

Other experiences

  • Book presentation Les deux pieds dans les ronces (Both Feet into Brambles), Le Vecteur, 2025, Charleroi
  • Workshop on Sensitive Walking and Writing Your Logbook, ULiège, June 2024, Hautes-Fagnes
  • Workshop on Sensitive Walking and Phytogram, Something Beautiful Festival, October 2023, Brussels
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal Dérivation, 2023-present, Liège
  • Editor and graphic designer at Les p’tits carnets de l’artiste Jim Castelain, 2022-present, Brussels
  • External perspective and artistic assistant, show La grande remontée by Pau Simon, 2021, Paris
  • Lecturer, On the work of publishing, for the Critical Architecture workshop of the Master 1, 2021, University of Liège, Liège
  • Speaker, Urban Space Workshop, La Cambre, 2021, Brussels
  • Assistant to artist Jonas Moenne, 2019-2020, Brussels
  • Lecturer, Cedric Price’s Potteries Thinkbelt, 2018, Transiro Conference, Montreal
  • Member of the collective and graphic designer Les autoworkshop au terrain vague, 2018-2020, Montreal
  • Graphic designer, RIPA – Rencontre interuniversitaire de performance actuelle, 2018, Montreal
  • Designer, LU – open library project, 2018, UQAM, Montreal
  • Co-founder and editor, Échelles, 2017-2019, UQAM, Montreal